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Researcher · Core Competence · United States

D.R. Spears

D.R. Spears publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, on topics such as Advanced Optical Network Technologies, Advanced Photonic Communication Systems and Optical Network Technologies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,946,480
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,079,578
of 1,627,098
Works
17
Citations
377
Citations per work
22.2
h-index
11
i10-index 11Top 47% in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
D.R. Spears

What does D.R. Spears research?

D.R. Spears's work is mostly in Engineering (64%), Computer Science (24%), Medicine (8%).

Physical Sciences: 15 works · 88.0% of their workEngineering: 11 works · 64.0% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 11 works · 62.0% of their workAerospace Engineering: 0 works · 2.0% of their workComputer Science: 4 works · 24.0% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 4 works · 22.0% of their workHardware and Architecture: 0 works · 2.0% of their workHealth Sciences: 1 works · 8.0% of their workMedicine: 1 works · 8.0% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 works · 4.0% of their workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 works · 4.0% of their workEverything else: 1 works · 4.0% of their workTHEIR WORKD.R. Spears17works
Physical Sciences88%Health Sciences8%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering1164.0%
    2. Computer Science424.0%
    1. Medicine18.0%
  3. Everything else14.0%
  1. 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering62% of their works
  2. 2Computer Networks and Communications22% of their works
  3. 3Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine4% of their works
  4. 4Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging4% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering2% of their works
  6. 6Hardware and Architecture2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe D.R. Spears's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Elastic Optical Networks, Optical Networks, Microwave Photonics, Photonic Signal Processing, Coherent Detection, Optical Fiber, Fault Tolerance and Distributed Systems.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Elastic Optical Networks111 topic
  2. Optical Networks111 topic
  3. Microwave Photonics91 topic
  4. Photonic Signal Processing91 topic
  5. Coherent Detection81 topic
  6. Optical Fiber81 topic
  7. Fault Tolerance52 topics
  8. Distributed Systems32 topics
  9. Interconnection Networks31 topic
  10. Networks on Chip31 topic
  11. Clock Synchronization21 topic
  12. Digital Mammography21 topic
  13. Mammographic Density21 topic
  14. Mobile Agents21 topic
  15. Network Management21 topic
  16. Wireless Sensor Networks21 topic
  17. Grid Computing11 topic
  18. Resource Management11 topic

Where does D.R. Spears work?

D.R. Spears's main affiliation in the publication record is Core Competence, United States.

How many publications and citations does D.R. Spears have?

OpenAlex counts 17 works and 377 citations for D.R. Spears, an h-index of 11, ranking #3,946,480 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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